Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c42323f975d500a9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

63.4 KB Created: 2020-08-15 12:26:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 01d9bfc7edf7b2ceaa5f174f0fdf7c2f SHA-1: 1ed3fbaf597aab46ad4c39d8b651b82d64bfb057 SHA-256: c42323f975d500a912a53f8f1f65cd83c58a80c73b77c66889eee8cc6e53d47e
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a link farm designed to mimic search results, directing users to a malicious redirector at 'ttraff.ru'. This is a common tactic for SEO poisoning to lure victims into downloading further malware or visiting phishing sites. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of numerous external links supports the SEO link farm heuristic.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://ttraff.ru/wb?keyword=rscit%20question%20paper%202016%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.cuastt.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695749/7885266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.dhshighschool.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438611/tejokufum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2613/6743/files/40438161216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2359/7725/files/71704738596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/livoxigugefeguvon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4914/0902/files/peguruginowogavupanoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5174/5442/files/33243808582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9769/4109/files/tagefisek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2146/5757/files/68170931845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1682/9603/files/rugikumanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8894/5064/files/46577382788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8512/8099/files/62349521280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://www.geocities.com/mitra_anirban/hobbies.htmGNUIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmRegularIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 6

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000069ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x69AC 5612 bytes
SHA-256: 40b5f6059f3638091b78473953dd64549445aa0ed0d4d84470959c754c3a7a91
font_01_sfnt_off00007cc2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7CC2 3720 bytes
SHA-256: d0c9e33916e9e64e42e31bcf0d345f6c2fcd41735b1a34df0119bd0eb1094281
font_02_sfnt_off0000881e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x881E 3876 bytes
SHA-256: ff21e803e22997365e39de14ea7ed54d4a4ac9993e344bd01ee66858119c9d93
font_03_sfnt_off0000974a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x974A 12556 bytes
SHA-256: 904ea2fc7fb2866715b8a13e0a88a3702829fb29103561abd1f89f99b4a6ffd9
font_04_sfnt_off0000bf7e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF7E 4324 bytes
SHA-256: cd94ef65598b1866d0653cdd88243d989fd81359c0e770c2d3a4858f1c2f6d34
font_05_sfnt_off0000cd81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD81 11036 bytes
SHA-256: b66eb7c6a303b1011fd1278daf78bacd0e592a2b338012e8132d7e3c4051d404